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Hiki Komori @hikikomorisaito.bsky.social · 2d

"Keaton expressed that she did not want to give up her personal independence to be a wife, stating that she didn't feel she was "marriage material" and instead found fulfillment in motherhood after adopting two children as a single parent."

R.I.P. Diane Keaton 10-11-2025 (89 yrs old)

Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 3d

“i’ve always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women.

when someone says about a woman, ‘i’m sorry, that’s just wrong,’ i tend to think she must be doing something right”

rip diane keaton💔🕊️ (1946-2025)

Photograph of Diane Keaton by Norman Seeff

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Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

A satisfying takedown of all things Bari, but I especially enjoyed the description of Skydance failson David Ellison as having "resting checking-into-the-White-Lotus face."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27m

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”

But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.

“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

NEVER FORGET: A few short weeks ago, a heartless Donald Trump told Bibi Netanyahu to "FINISH THE JOB" which would have meant certain death for all the hostages.

Now that Trump stands to make BILLIONS he's become the Peace President?!!! NO!!!! It does not work that way! The hypocrisy is NOT OK!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“Total destruction”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

His Nobel pitch needs a little work

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Jesús Montero @monterojesus.bsky.social · 2d

Just heard. Terrible news.

Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 2d

Saleh Al-Ja'afrawi, one of the last remaining Palestinian journalists in Gaza, was murdered by Israeli-affiliated gangs in Gaza city today. In a conflict that regularly dehumanized not only Palestinians at large but esp Palestinian men, Al-Ja'afrawi represented the best of humanity. rip💔🕊️

X post from October 2023: Palestinian journalist plays with a little baby boy who survived an Israeli airstrike, Gaza.

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 2d

Saleh Al-Ja'afrawi, one of the last remaining Palestinian journalists in Gaza, was murdered by Israeli-affiliated gangs in Gaza city today. In a conflict that regularly dehumanized not only Palestinians at large but esp Palestinian men, Al-Ja'afrawi represented the best of humanity. rip💔🕊️

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Gabriela Mijangos 🍉 @gabmijangos.bsky.social · 2d

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 3d

“i’ve always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women.

when someone says about a woman, ‘i’m sorry, that’s just wrong,’ i tend to think she must be doing something right”

rip diane keaton💔🕊️ (1946-2025)

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 2d

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wadjda
europa europa
beau travail
awakenings
frozen
proof
sleepless in seattle
love & basketball🏀
bend it like beckham
still the water
the connection
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barbie
when i saw you
fish tank
harlan county, usa

amomg so many others…🎬

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 2d

mississippi masala
outrage
fast times at ridgemont high🎸
things behind the sun
cleo from 5 to 7
eve’s bayou
jeanne dielman
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the babadook
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past lives
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walking and talking
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promising young woman…

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 2d

is this a trick question?

american psycho
daughters of the dust
the virgin suicides
the piano
boys don’t cry
aftersun
portrait of a lady on fire
nomadland
orlando
wayne’s world🤘
party girl
monster
my brilliant career
paris is burning
desperately seeking susan
lost in translation….

X post: Name a great film directed by a woman…

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo Calls on U.S. Bishops to stand up for migrants rights
my latest...

Opinion | Why Pope Leo gathered more than 100 Latino Catholics at the Vatican this week

The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

www.msnbc.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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